April Fool's Joke

Rachel has been looking forward to April Fool's day for weeks. She has come up with ideas and made plans to fool someone in our house. Well, apparently she planned to pull a joke on me, but Becca gave it away and broke her little heart. She was in tears yesterday morning.

She had got out of bed in the middle of the night and stuffed her pillows in her bed so it looked like she was there. Then she had climbed in bed with Becca to sleep. Her plan was that when I went in to wake her up, she would come in behind me and scare me. Becca was angry because Rachel didn't want her help and she slammed the bedroom door really hard, waking Don up and causing me to come flying out of the bathroom thinking something was wrong - ruining the whole prank! She was devistated!

After consoling her, I came up with a prank to pull on dad. We took his work boots and dumped dry cat food down into the toes and then waited for him to put them on. When he put his first foot in he yelled, "What the heck!" He seemed kind of upset and Rachel wasn't so sure that he would take the joke. I kept mouthing to her to say "April Fool's" but she was a little scared. Finally she said it and Don started laughing. She too then started laughing. He told her that he thought the cats had thrown-up in his boots. We all got a good laugh & she went to school and told her class about it. Her teacher thought it was pretty funny. Even dad told all the guys at work about it. Good job, Rae!!!!

Medieval Battle

On Tuesday night the boys had a Court of Honor. It was a Medieval Times theme and once again Alvin Merrill (the scout master) really got into character. He had made swords that were PVC pipe wrapped with swimming noodles and LOTS of duct tape. He had a "fair maiden" that they were fighting for. He called up each boy and knighted them, giving them each a very creative name. Parker was knighted Sir Mash Potatoes and Darek was knighted Sir More helping of Green Beans. Tristan Burgio was Sir Sharp Knife, Zach Bates was Sir Pepto Bismal and Parker's friend Brenden was Sir Gastrial Intestinal. I thought I was going to fall off my chair laughing. It was hilarious and the boys loved it!

He then had rounds where he let the boys battle each other with the swords, which Don & I thought was rather brave of him. The boys actually did pretty well with the rules and no one got seriously injured. Parker, however, did come out with a small black eye. He took a whack to the face, but he was okay and it made for a good April Fool's joke the next day at school.

Parker received his Automotive merit badge and Darek received his Camping merit badge and his Automotive merit badge. The boys are doing really great. Darek is to the point of submitting for an Eagle project and working on about 4 required badges for Eagle Rank. Parker is working on his Star rank and some required badges.